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Death Penalty Information Center. 2008 November 13, 2008 <www.deathpenaltyinfo.org>.

Death by: Lethal Injection, electricution, gas chamber, hanging, firing squad - RF
Three states still have firing squad (Idaho, Oklahoma, Utah) - AH
Utah still does firing squad by decision of inmate - AH
28 states: three-drug combination for lethal injection - KS
10 states: non-specified drugs for lethal injection - KS
Death penalty laws: established in 18th century - RF
1700's: could get death penalty for cutting down a tree - RF
New Jersey: Thiopental sodium and pancuronium bromide for lethal injection - KS
Devine, moral, and martial laws: death penalty for stealing grapes, killing chickens, trading w/ indians - RF
New York colony institutes dukes law of 1665, striking parents denying true god: all punishable by death - RF
Execution from 1608-1976 (Maryland-309, Virginia-1277, Wisconsin-1) - AH
Execution from 1976-present (Maryland-5, Texas-420) - AH
North Carolina: 3 drugs, only 2 required in statute - KS
Maryland: authorizes lethal injection for capital offences occured on/after 3/25/94 - KS
Those who committed offence before 3/25/94 may select lethal injection/lethal gas - AH
Lethal injection: 35 states plus US Military & Gov't - RF
Electricution: 9 states - RF
Gas Chamber: 5 states - RF
Hanging: 2 states - KS
Firing Squad: 2 states - KS
US Military: has death penlty (Lethal Injection) - KS
First Electric Chair: 1888 - RF
Oklahoma (1977): first state to adopt lethal injection - RF
Nevada (1924): cyanide gas chamber - AH
Firing Squad: 5 shooters/30 caliber rifles w/ single rounds - KS
Hanging: primary way of execution until 1890's - AH
Firing Squad: strap to chair w/ sandbags surrounding to absorb blood - AH
Shooters: option of killing or making death slow/painful - AH
Gee Jon: first person executed by lethal gas - RF

Death Penalty Focus. November 13, 2008 <www.deathpenalty.org>.

California: death penalty costs $137,000,000/ year - KG
Replacing death penalty saves $125,000,000/year - KG
Money could spent on more efficient violent prevention programs - MK
No death penalty: 13 states - KG
Fear of death doesnt stop murders from killing again - MK
Death penalty: allowed in 34 states - MK
State level: death penalty ruled unconstitutional by high courts in 2004 - MK
Executions suspended: Illinois - KG
North Carolina: Lawmakers are considering bill that would impose moratorium on executions - MK
1967-1968 death penalty was a deterrient in 27 states - KG
1977 Furman vs. Georgia: voids 40 state death penalty statutes/suspends capital punishment - MK
Majority of Americans still see execution as ultimate punishment - MK
Bills to reinstate death penalty: 12 states - MK
2004: New York death penalty declared unconstitutional - MK
AK, DC, HI, Iowa, ME, Mass, MI, MN, ND, RI, VT, WV, WI: No death penalty - KG
14 ammends: cite cruel/unusual punishment - KG
99% of criminals: penniless by time case is up for appeal - MK
Death: makes error irreversible - KG
Death penalty: never reduced crime - KG
Grant McClellan: "motives for death penalty could be used for revenge" - KG
Executions: public through most of history - KG
Justice system: millions killed because justice system is not working - KG
No deterrent effect by using death penalty - KG
Average time on death row: 10 years - MK
People on death row: watch tv, enjoy lives until executed - MK
Can prepare for death by: creating will, death statement - KG
Death penalty has never reduced crime rate - KG
22 people: wrongfully executed - KG
Repeat murders: eliminated - KG
Foreseeable murders: deterred - KG
Bible quote: "The murderer shall surely be put to death" - KG

White, Deborah. About.com: US Liberal Politics. November 14, 2008 <http://usliberals.about.com/od/deathpenalty/i/DeathPenalty.htm>.

Capital punishment/death penalty premeditated- planned taking of human life - MK
Death penalty: ultimate denial of human rights - MK
No executions occured in US (1967-1976) - MK
1972: supreme court nullified death penalty - KS
Another supreme court ruling: death penalty is constitutional - MK
Crimes w/ death penalty: vary (treason, murder, theft) - MK
2004: 3797 executions/25 countries - MK
Capital punishment: 36 states - MK
Since 1976: 1004 felons executed in US - KS
States in US territories with no current death penalty statute: AK, HI, Iowa, KS, ME, MA, MI, MN, NY, ND, RI, VT, WV, WI, DC, Puerto Rico - MK

Messerli, Joe. Death Penalty Pro's & Con's. 9/08/2008 November 14, 2008 <http://www.balancedpolitics.org/death_penalty.htm>.

Pro: closure to victims family who are suffering - AH
Pro: another form of crime deterrent - AH
Pro: justice better surved - AH
Pro: parole/escapes give chance to kill again - AH
Con: financial costs - KS
Con: endless appeals - KS
Con: give other countries more favorable image of America - AH
Con: innocent men/women put to death - AH
Con: doesn't bring victim back - KS
Con: some jury members reluctant to put to death - KS
Con: mentally ill patients put to death - AH
Con: why kill someone who killed someone to show killing is wrong - AH
Pro: provides deterrent for prisners w/ life sentence - AH

Amnesty International USA: Death Penalty Cost. 2008 November 14, 2008 www.amnestyusa.org/death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-costs/page.do?id=1101084.

Death penalty cost: 1.26 million dollars - RF
Non-death penalty cost: 740 thousand dollars - RF
Death penalty case: 70% more money than non-death penalty case - KS
Maryland: $3,000,000 to put one to death - RF
California: $137,000,000/year for death penalty - RF
Death penalty/race: (Hispanic-5%) - KS
African American-14% - RF
White-79% - RF
Other-2% - RF
47% of America: prefer death penalty - KG
1995: death sentances at highest - KS

Virginia Death Penalty Infomation. November 14, 2008 <http://www.vadp.org/info.htm>.

Eligible: commit murder under 1 or more circumstances - KS
1st guilty: 2nd trial is held/determine if crime is vile - KS
Appeals: if defendant raises particular issue at trial, it cant be raised in federal court later - KG
Introduced in Virginia: early 1600's (hanging George Kendall) - KG
Virginia: carried out 1300 executions in history - KG
Virginia: executed more women/young children than any other state - KS
February 1951: Virginia executed 8 men in 72 hrs - KG
Virginia record: 17 executions it 1909 - KG
Injection: chair with metal container under seat - KG
Turn 3 keys in control room to start - KS
Death occurs in 6-18 minutes - KG
Heart moniter attached to inmate read by staff in control room - KG
1998: lethal injection eliminated - KS
Cost: 5 to 6 times more than life imprisonment - KG
Murder rates lower/states with no death penalty - KG
75 death row inmates spent 20 years on the Row-KG
Capital punishment is applied to a higher percentage of minorities than whites. -MK
$2 million in legal fees to try a death penalty case-KG
4 times higher than comparable murder trials.-MK
$700,000 in legal fees-KG
$1.2 million in execution costs.-KG
1973 -1998, Florida spent $57 million on 18 executions-KG
400 innocent people convicted of capital crimes not commit, 23 executed -KG
Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was constitutional-KG
Ninety of the 722 murderers executed in the US volunteere-KG
70% Public approval of the death penalty-KG
36 STATES WITH -KG
14 STATES WITHOUT- KG
debate in the U.S. is dominated by the fraudulent voice of the anti-death penalty movement.-KG
55 women on death row-KG

Sharp, Dudley. Death Penalty and Sentencing Information. 10/1/97 November 14, 2008 <www.prodeathpenalty.com/DP>.

Imposition of death penalty/very rare - AH
Since 1967- 1 execution/1600 murders (.06%) - AH
1967-1996: 560,000/358 executions - AH
5900 people: sentenced to death (358 executed from (1973-96) (.2%) - AH
56 executed in 1995 (Record for modern death penalty) represented 1.8% of those on death row - KS
Some equate American death penalty w/ nazi holocaust - AH
Opponants see no moral distinction, slaughter of 12 million innocent men/children/women - KS
9-15% on death row, at least 1 additional murder - KS
Some claim death penalty is barbaric act - AH
6% young adults parolled in 1978 having been convicted/murder arrested again for murder within 6 yrs. of release - AH
women comprise 1.5% death row population. -KG
40 women have been executed in the United States, including 11 since 1976-KG
568 documented instances ,female executions.-AH
female offenders constitute about 2.8% of all American executions-AH
Female executions have become increasingly rare-KG
Women about 1 in 10 murder arrest -AH

North Carolina Department of Correction. November 14, 2008 <www.doc.state.nc.us/dop/deathpenalty/method>.

1998: North Carolina made lethal injection only method of execution - KG
Inmate covered with sheet after death - KS
Inmate given opportunity to speak/pray with chaplain - KS
Lethal injection is slowest of execution methods - KG
First syringes: no less than 3000 mg. sodium pentothal - KG
Second syringes: saline (flush IV line clean) - KG
Third syringes: no less than 40 mg. pancuronium bromide - KG
Fourth syringes: no less than 160 millequivelents of pottasium chloride - KG
Fifth syringes: saline (flush IV line clean) - KG
Flat line EKG moniter for five minutes: warden pronounces inmate dead - KS
Witnesses escorted to elevators/body released to medical examiner - KS
Administration of death penalty: since Colonial America - KS
1910: power to execute: taken away from gov't; assumed by state - KS
1910-1961: state executed another 361 persons - KG
120 inmates: sentences vacated, new trials, many re-sentenced to life in prison - KS
1998: General Assembly eliminated lethal gas execution - KG
3 methods of execution (all at Central Prison in Raleigh) - KG
First 28 years: electric chair - KS
1936: first gas chamber - KS
1983: option of lethal injection/gas chamber - KS
1998: lethal injection only - KS
Over 1000 sent to death row (since 1910) - KG
Central Prison: men housed in cellblocks (Unit III) - KG
Television in dayroom - KG
Inmates assigned incentive wage jobs (clothes house, barber, janitor) - KS
18th Century BC, the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon allowed the death penalty for 25 crimes, not included murder.-KG
March 2005 119 innocent people released from death rows across the country since 1973-KG
Less than 1% of all murderers are condemned to death-KS
2% of death row inmates are executed -KG
Over 113 people death row have been exonerated since 1973-KS
Reversed 68% of the death penalty convictions-KG
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